WSL5,OsPPR4

• Symbol: WSL5,OsPPR4
• MSU: LOC_Os04g58780
• RAPdb: Os04g0684500

• WSL5, a Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein, is Essential for Chloroplast Biogenesis in Rice Under Cold Stress., 2018, J Exp Bot.
• The coordinated action of PPR4 and EMB2654 on each intron half mediates trans-splicing of rps12 transcripts in plant chloroplasts., 2019, Plant J.

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• wsl5 was impaired in chloroplast ribosome biogenesis under cold stress
• We propose that the WSL5 allele is required for normal chloroplast development in maintaining retrograde signaling from plastids to the nucleus under cold stress
• Arabidopsis atppr4 and rice osppr4 mutants are embryo-lethal and seedling-lethal 3 weeks after germination, respectively, showing that PPR4 is essential in the development of both dicot and monocot plants

• CYP96B5~WSL5, WSL5~OsPPR4, Cytochrome P450 family member CYP96B5 hydroxylates alkanes to primary alcohols and is involved in rice leaf cuticular wax synthesis., WSL5 is predicted to encode a cytochrome P450 family member CYP96B5